"One of those rift monsters is teleporting all over the place, somehow. We're making a cage to capture it. It's doing the same thing they did, getting injured and then showing up again elsewhere." So it probably wouldn't work to kill it. It'd be back causing trouble again. Jesper finds that's been a good distraction. He's been creating the cage using his powers and it is the most direct way of doing so. He likes being a show off.

There were only a few creatures left from the rift, but the morbol was nearby. They didn't expect this to happen to it, but he shouldn't be surprised the gods used everything they possibly could.

"I wouldn't trade you for anything, love, but sometimes I get really sick of this place, with its war and its damned gods." The heralds came back twice so it's mostly them, although that clown god wasn't much better. They can say they're just there symbolically, but they're assholes about it.